The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 151
Some day or other you will find a husband who has been made expressly for you, and will live happily with him till death separates you.
Who acts: you, death · What happens: find, make, live, separate · To what, where: husband, you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, death), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 other | cc |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | conj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | aux |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 husband | det |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 made | aux:pass |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 husband | acl:relcl |
| 14 | expressly | expressly | ADV | _ | 13 made | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 live | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 live | cc |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 live | aux |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 find | conj |
| 21 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 20 live | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 live | obl |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 separates | mark |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 separates | nsubj |
| 26 | separates | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 live | advcl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 separates | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | you | a husband | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | present · perfect · passive | a husband | for you; expressly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | live | future | you not said here | with husband; happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location | ||||
| 4 | separate | present | death | you | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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